Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

By GREG GARRISON c. 2011 Religion News Service Jewish and Muslim groups want to know if they have a place in Alabama after Gov. Robert Bentley, just hours into office, said people who have not accepted Jesus as their savior are not his “brothers and sisters.” “Gov. Bentley certainly has a right to believe whatever…

BANGALORE, India — Church officials in Pakistan say the assassination of Salman Taseer, an outspoken critic of Pakistan’s blasphemy law, is a “setback” for the campaign to overturn the law that makes illegal to speak against Islam. “This assassination has made it now extremely difficult for us to campaign against the blasphemy law,” Victor Azariah,…

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled Jan. 4 that a veterans’ memorial featuring a 43-foot cross on California’s Mount Soledad is unconstitutional. “The use of such a distinctively Christian symbol to honor all veterans sends a strong message of endorsement and exclusion,” wrote Judge M. Margaret McKeown for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of…

By DANIEL BURKE c. 2011 Religion News Service WASHINGTON — Mass protests against planned mosques in New York City and Tennessee. An Oklahoma referendum to ban Islamic law. A media circus around a Florida pastor’s threat to burn Qurans. An outbreak of homegrown Islamic terrorists. Two U.S.-led wars in predominantly Muslim countries. There was no…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners
Close Ad